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Mr. Lif

Mon., May 18, 8 p.m., $12, with Willie Evans Jr. and Chiddy Bang, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 866-468-7619, johnnybrendas.com.

by A.D. Amorosi

Published: May 13, 2009

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When I heard Philly's Mr. Lif had pushed back the release of I Heard It Today from Inauguration Day to April 2009, I imagined that hip-hop's answer to Amiri Baraka was going to find its political impact blunted. Its agenda was so tied up in a collapsing economy and Obama's nohew New Deal initiatives, that it might seem dated and paranoid. Nope. It's all fresh, funky and paranoid — full of scorn for the FCC, the feds and the material world as a whole. Phew.

Mon., May 18, 8 p.m., $12, with Willie Evans Jr. and Chiddy Bang, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 866-468-7619, johnnybrendas.com.

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